Coming Up This Weekend: The Guest Bedroom

Our next battle in the War on Stuff is the Guest Bedroom, aka Smarty's room, aka where my wedding dress lives, aka "just throw it in the guest room." It's kind of a conglomeration of all of our random stuff that has never had a real place of its own. Oh, and it's where our guests sleep, in a really pitiful old bed. (Sorry 'bout that) It's pretty bad at the moment, since it's right beside the new, pristine office. We were admittedly a little lax last weekend, using the guest room to house stuff we wanted to keep but didn't know where to put it. Well, watch out, stuff...your moment of truth is coming!!

So, this weekend (hopefully just Saturday) is going to be dedicated to getting that organized, decluttered and usable. And maybe even pretty? I won't get my heart set on that last one, but who knows. Dream Big.

Some related organization projects we'll have to tackle in concert with the guest room will be:

1. Music (CD's, mp3 file organization). I'll throw DVDs in here for good measure.

2. Photos. Oooooh, photos. How do I love you and hate you all at the same time? I'm half digital, half negatives, which, am I really ever going to find the negative I need when I need it? My goal is to get the photos I have printed out in an album so we can at least look at them and enjoy them. And I want to get my photos that are older than the last four years at least in chronological order and somewhere where they won't get ruined.

And now, embarrassed, I give you The Before Shots:

In this shot, note Smarty on "her" bed. Note entire shelf full of pictures and crap like that. Note wedding dress draped over kids' rocking chair. And the rest of the stuff is from the office, and will NOT be going back into the office when we clean this room. I'm contemplating closing the door to preserve the organization in there.

Our IKEA shelves... they're cute and I think could really be functional. I think we need to get rid of some books, and better utilize these bad boys. Note extra wedding crap off to the side. I'm too cheap to throw it away but what do I do w/ it?

Stay tuned, and wish us luck.